xtremities who was
exhibited a few years ago in Philadelphia. In Figure 113, which
represents a similar case in a girl whose photograph is deposited in
the Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians, Philadelphia, we see
how cleverly the congenital defect may be remedied by mechanical
contrivance. With her crutches and artificial legs this girl was said
to have moved about easily.

Parvin describes a "turtle-man" as an ectromelian, almost entering the
class of phocomelians or seal-like monsters; the former term signifies
abortive or imperfect formation of the members. The hands and feet were
normally developed, but the arms, forearms, and legs are much shortened.

The "turtle-woman" of Demerara was so called because her mother when
pregnant was frightened by a turtle, and also from the child's fancied
resemblance to a turtle. The femur was six inches long, the woman had a
foot of six bones, four being toes, viz., the first and second
phalanges of the first and second toes. She had an acetabulum, capsule,
and ligamentum teres, but no tibia or fibula; she also had a defective
right forearm. She was never the victim of rachitis or like disease,
but died of syphilis in the Colonial Hospital. In her twenty-second
year she was delivered of a full-grown child free of deformity.

There was a woman living in Bavaria, under the observation of Buhl, who
had congenital absence of both femurs and both fibulas. Almost all the
muscles of the thigh existed, and the main attachment to the pelvis was
by a large capsular articulation. Charpentier gives the portrait of a
woman in whom there was a uniform diminution in the size of the limbs.
Debout portrays a young man with almost complete absence of the thigh
and leg, from whose right hip there depended a foot. Accrell describes
a peasant of twenty-six, born without a hip, thigh, or leg on the right
side. The external genital organs were in their usual place, but there
was only one testicle in the scrotum. The man was virile. The rectum
instead of opening outward and underneath was deflected to the right.

Supernumerary Limbs.--Haller reports several cases of supernumerary
extremities. Plancus speaks of an infant with a complete third leg, and
Dumeril cites a similar instance. Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire presented to
the Academie des Sciences in 1830 a child with four legs and feet who
was in good health. Amman saw a girl with a large thigh attached to
her nates. Below the thigh was a si